Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Do not plow ground for Indian corn until the surface na» become ao warm that the seed will germinate and come up in a few day*. Do not feel discouraged about raisings faircnop of American potatoes, because the Colorado potato-beetle damaged your potatoesriast season. A small quantity of Paris green will repel those pests. Spots from sperm candles, stearine, and the like, should .be softened and removed by ninety-five per cent, alcohol, the* sponged off with a weaker alcohol and a small quantity of ammonia added to it. The disagreeable smell made by cabbage when cooking may be annihilated by putting a tiny piece of washing soda, not larger than the top of a letu-pencil, in the pot. This ais great discovery, and should be heralded from Maine to California.— Exchange. Holding white cotton or linen over the fumes of burning sulphur, and wetting in warm chlorine water, will take out wine or fruit stains. The sooner the remedy is applied after any of these spots or stains are discovered the more (nectual the restoration. Aside from the consideration of location, tne value of a farm consists in its ability to produce. Farmers often want to increase the number of acres, when they might about double the produce from from wnat they have. They are too eager to enlarge their farms. There is nothing in the routine of common management and treatment worse than to bring a team in, sweaty and tired, from the road or fields, when the spring air is cool and damp, and put it into a stable where a current of wind strikes and chills the flesh and muscles. Young growing animals now need food which contains a large portion of albuminoids or nitrogenous food for the formation of bone and muscles; and if they do not have.it they will be weak and of small frame. Oqp ot the best foods is wheat bran. Mixed with corn makes a better feed still.— Detroit Tribune. Colored cottons or woolens stained with wine or fruit should be wet in alcohol and ammonia, then sponged off gently —not it the material will warrant it, washed in tepid Bilka may be wet with this preparation when injured by these stains. A writer in the Farm Jcurnal recommends those preparing for a flower garden, to depend mainly on old standard varieties, which are always reliable. He recommends a dozen kinds, and here are the names of them: Asters, balsams, dianthus, petunias, phlox, calliopsis, verbenas, sweet peas, mignonette, cinnias, marigolds aud'portulaccas. When the soil is thin and the subsoil is lacking in fertility, it is better to plow shallow, unless one has access to a generous supply of muck and barnyard manure. But, when the soil is deep and rich and the subsoil is full of mineral or inorganic elements which must be exposed to the influences of frost, rain and sunshine before they can be Mailable to growing plants, then plow deep. Successful nurserymen, who know that a deep, well-prepared soil is beat for trees, often furnish some of the finest specimens of large, profitable farming in the crops which they obtain from the vacant portions of their land, which should encourage farmers to discard superficial and adopt thorough culture, provided always they have manure sufficient to fertilize all the soil that is turned up by the plow. —A. Y. Her did.